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Name: Hamlin Garland  
   
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Date of Birth: 16th September 1860
   
Place of Birth: West Salem, Wisconsin, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Hamlin Hannibal Garland (born September 14, 1860 in West Salem, Wisconsin; died March 4, 1940 in Hollywood, California) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.

Born into a Wisconsin farm family, he moved throughout the Midwest throughout his young life, but moved to Boston to pursue a writing career in 1886. His first success came in 1891 with Main-Traveled Roads, a collection of short stories inspired by his days on the farm. After publishing an acclaimed biography of Ulysses S. Grant in McClure's Magazine (published as a book in 1898), Garland moved west to follow the Klondike Gold Rush, which inspired him to write The Trail of the Gold Seekers in 1899, which proved to be his most successful work to date.

A prolific writer, Garland continued to publish novels, short story collections, essays, and short fiction for numerous publications. Beginning in 1917, Garland began writing an autobiography based on the life of he and his family, as well as the American Midwest, titled A Son of the Middle Border. The first book's success prompted a sequel, A Daughter of the Middle Border, for which Garland won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for biography. After two more volumes, Garland began a second popular series of memoirs based on his diary.

Hamlin Garlin died at age seventy-nine, after moving to Hollywood, California to research psychic phenomenon, for which he wrote several books, including 1939's The Mystery of the Buried Crosses. His later works tried to defend such phenomenon and prove the legitimacy of psychic mediums.

Bibliography

Middle Border Series

  • A Son of the Middle Border (1917)
  • A Daughter of the Middle Border (1921)
  • Trail-Makers of the Middle Border (1926)
  • Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (1928)

Memoir Series

  • Roadside Meetings (1930)
  • Companions on the Trail (1931)
  • My Friendly Contemporaries (1932)
  • Afternoon Neighbors (1934)

Other Works

  • Under the Wheel (1890)
  • Main-Travelled Roads (1891)
  • Jason Edwards (1892)
  • A Member of the Third House (1892)
  • A Little Norsk (1892)
  • A Spoil of Office (1892)
  • Prairie Folks (1893)
  • Prairie Songs (1893)
  • Crumbling Idols (1894)
  • Rose of Dutcher's Coolly (1895)
  • Wayside Courtships (1897)
  • The Spirit of Sweetwater (1898)
  • Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character (1898)
  • Boy Life on the Prairie (1899)
  • The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899)
  • The Eagle's Heart (1900)
  • Her Mountain Lover (1901)
  • The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop (1902)
  • Hesper (1903)
  • The Light of the Star (1904)
  • The Tyranny of the Dark (1905)
  • Witch's Gold (1906)
  • The Long Trail (1907)
  • Money Magic (1907)
  • The Shadow World (1908)
  • The Moccasin Ranch (1909)
  • Cavanagh, Forest Ranger (1910)
  • Other Main-Travelled Roads (1910)
  • Victor Ollnee's Discipline (1911)
  • The Forester's Daughter (1914)
  • They of the High Trails (1916)
  • A Pioneer Mother (1922)
  • The Book of the American Indian (1923)
  • The Westward March of American Settlement (1927)
  • Prairie Song and Western Story (1928)
  • Iowa, O Iowa (1935)
  • Joys of the Trail (1935)
  • Forty Years of Psychic Research (1936)
  • The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (1939)

External Links

  • The Hamlin Garland Society

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